Loom-temple.



O. D. WHITING.

LOOM TEMPLE.

APILIUATION FILED- SEP'IH Q, 1912. Lflfifi figfi, r Patented Mar.11,1913

Inventor.

Charles D. Whiting,

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NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR T0 DRAPER COM- PANY, OF HO?EDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

LOOM-TEIVIPLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

.latonted Mar. 1'1, 191,3.

Application filed September 9, 1812. Serial No. 719,290.

To all whom [i may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES l). \Vnrrrno, a citizen of the United States, residing at Nashua, county of Hillsboro, State of New Hampshire, have invented an Improvement in Loom-'lemples, of which the following description, in connection with the aocompanying drawing, is a specification, like characters on the drawing representing like 1 parts.

I the pod This invention relates to loom temples of the type wherein a rotalahlo toothed roll is inclosed between the pod and cap constr tilting the temple head, the roll being your naled on the cap. Such a temple is shown;

in United States Patent No. 54(3,03*2,granted to Stimpson, ll'lay 28, 1,895, the cap hav ing a lateral ear which stars upon the pod at the outer or closed end of the temple head and is retained in place by a suitable SLI6\\' bolt.

lVhen the cap and pod are properly attached the toothed roll is maintained in its operative position with its teeth clear of the bottom of the pod or any part thereof, but if the attaching bolt works loose and is not discovered promptly and tightened, the inner end of the cap will sag down toward the pod, permitting the sharp points of the teeth on the roll to hit portions of the pod. This results in slightly bending or turning the points of the teeth, or in dull'ing them, so that the marks of the teeth are discerni' ble in the cloth, a fault which is most 0bjectionable in many kinds of cloth, and the presence of these marks materially reduces the value of the fabric.

My present invention has for its objectthe production of a loom temple of the type referred to with simple and etlicient means to prevent injury'to the roll teeth should the fastening between the pod and cap work loose and be undetected by the weaver.

The various novel features of the inven tion will be fully described in the subjoined specification and particularly pointed out in the following claims.

the cap alone, on the line 2-2, Fig. 1, the roll being omitted.

Referring to the thawing, the elongated, transversely concaved pod A, having the attached shank B and heel C, the cap D also transversely concaved and supporting at its opposite ends the journals for the usual ioo 'hcd roll E, l, the lateral ear F on the cap, to seat or the recessed part G of at the outer or closed end of the templehead, and the upright screw-bolt ll \"llltll ln prat llt'e passes through the said ear and is screwed into the pod, to rigidly atta ;h tho cap to the pod, may he and are all of usual or well known construction. lVhcn the bolt is p operly set up the roll E is held in its operative position, with the points of its teeth properly spaced from any part at the pod. Should this fastening member H work loose the cap tends to sag at its inner end and thereby permits the sharp, fine points of the roll teeth to be injured by striking or otherwise engaging some part of the pod,

n accordance with my present invention, in the embodiment herein illustrated, I form a transverse. open notch or seat 1 in the outer part of the end wall A of the pod, and, in the-adjacent end of the cap I drill .a diagonal hole 2, and into this hole I insert preferably with a driving fit the shank 3 of a yielding cap sustainer, as it may be termed. This cap-sustainer is made of pieceot' spring wire, having the straight shank 3, and an open, upright loop or bend 4, the free end. or extremity of the spring loop being outturned at 5.

The open loop l loosely surrounds the ad jacent journal, as (3, of the toothed roll, and when the pod and cap are assembled the free end 5 of the spring loop enters the seat 1 in the pod, the loop 4 being thereby somewhat flexed or put under lensiomas will appear by a comparison of Figs. 2 and 3. This tlexurc of the resilient sustainer tends to lift the op osito or inner end of the cap, should the liolt H become loose, so that the teeth of the roll cannot engagethe pod or any part thereof. As will Be seen by an in specl'ion of Fig. 2 the sustainer is located I Fig. 2. and there is no relative movement of the cap and pod. but if the bolt, is loosened the weight of the ep and the roll E carried thereby causes the said cap to sag down at its free inner end, before described. The re silience of the snstniner suificient to overcome such weight of the cap and roll and thereby the cap is upheld if the. looltv H becomes loose, and in ury to the teeth of the roll is prevented.

v t will he observed that the snstainer out of the way of the toothed roll or its journal (3, it can he readily applied to the temple at it very small cost and with very slight changes, as the drilling of the hole or socket 2 and the tornmtion of the sent 5 are the only change requisite to adapt the temple for the reception of the (flap nus-tanner.

Changes or mmlitieations in details of con struction and nrrnngement may he mode by those skilled in the art without. dtn iurting from the spirit and scope of my invention as set forth in the nnnexed eluims.

liming fully dencrihed my invention,

tween it and the inner end of the clip, combined with a loop-like resilient. sustainer having it Slltlllli fixedly held in the socket and its free end entering the seat, normally to place the snstuiner under tension, looseir ing of the fastening member permitting the snstainer to expand and thereby llltlilltillll the cap and pod separated at their unconnected inner endex, to prevent injury to the teeth of the roll.

in a loom temple. tL pod, a cap over hanging the pod and having a toothed roll ionrnuled therein. and an upright screw-bolt nornmlly connecting the cap and pod at their outer ends and holding superposed. portions thereof in fixed relation, combined with an uprightspringdoop located between the serMY-holt and the inner end of the cup and interposed between the cup and pod near their outer ends. said s 'n'ing-loop being fixedly uttiu-hed to one and hearingagainst the other of said parts, and normally held under tension. loosening of the seren -bolt permitting the spring-loop to expand and prevent. sagging ot the inner end of the cup and roll.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my 1.123110 to this specification, in the presence of two suhserihing witnesses.

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